Virtualization & Storage
The VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates the LCM of the vRealize Suite. It must be deployed before any vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, or vRealize Automation components can be […]
VMware VCF version: 3.9.1 In this post we detail how to Expand a VCF deployed instance of vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) leveraging automation that is built-in to VMware SDDC Manager. […]
VMware VCF Version: 3.9.0 Part 1: VCF On VxRAIL – Deploying vRealize Suite (Part1 – vRSLCM) In Part2 of this series we detail how to deploy vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) […]
VCF Version: 3.9.0 Note: ensure ‘My VMware’ creds are entered successfully in the SDDC Manager repository settings and the list of available products are being displayed in the SDDC Manager […]
PART1: VVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part1 – vRA) Specifically posts Part1&2 in this series focus on deploying vRealize Automation (vRA). Product Binaries Note: ensure ‘My […]
VMware vRSLCM 2.0 – Delete an Environment: Quite a useful feature especially in a lab environment from where I normally operate! As you may gather from the versions specified below, this […]
One of the cool things about vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is the capability to add components to an existing LCM configured vROps. In this example it is demonstrated how to […]
For details of vRSLCM Patch 1 and associated fixes please refer to VMware KB59658 Note: It is best practice to snapshot vRSLCM before proceeding with the update. From the top […]
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) v2.0 is a centralized way to manage the vRealize suite of products from a single pane of glass, allowing users to perform tasks such as […]
There are different scenarios for taking this course of action as detailed in VMware KB2144269 in my case this was a result of losing my lab vCenter which resulted in a […]
In order to verify that the services are REGISTERED log into the VAMI (Virtual Appliance Management Infrastructure): https://vra01.domain.local:5480 as root and click on Services:
The following two-part post details how to add an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) vSphere Local Cluster, in EHC terms we refer to this cluster type as LC1S (Local Copy on One Site). There […]
The following post details how to reconfigure both the CPU & Memory of a specific VM from within a vRealize Automation console. Enable The Reconfigure Entitlement Begin by enabling the […]
The following two-part post details how to add an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) vSphere Local Cluster, in EHC terms we refer to this cluster type as LC1S (Local Copy on […]
EHC (Enterprise Hybrid Cloud) which is the DellEMC turnkey VMware (vRealize Suite) based cloud offering has made great strides in recent releases transforming the cloud strategy for CPSD CI/HCI, namely […]
The following steps detail how to configure the vCenter plugin by running the ‘Add a vCenter Server instance’ workflow from the Orchestrator client in order to create the connection between […]
This procedure details the steps to execute in order to remove an ESXi host from a source ViPR Export Group and add to an existing target Export Group. Note: this […]
Introducing ‘EHC on VxRail’! Introduced as part of the EHC 4.1.1 release (Code named “Challenger”) – GA March ’17 Simple, Easy, Start Small, Scalable! VxRAIL HCI Appliance now has the […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create a Service & Entitlement (Part 5) 1. Create a ‘vSphere’ Machine Blueprint VMware Machine Blueprint Definition: A blueprint that contains a machine component specifies the workflow used […]
vRealize Automation 7.1 – Create Machine Prefix, Business Group & Add Reservation (Part 4) 1. Create a Service VMware Services Definition: Services are used to organize catalog items into related offerings to […]
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